The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1887-12-16

wouldn't ut first. but they teased
so l concluded | would to please
'em.
"Pd had my hair crinkled a day
or two before, to git used to doin'
OF 1t, so twas kinder wavy an look
ed full as well rs it did crimped
tight l remember how, after
was all ready am stood waitIn' ful
Jonathan, | jest glanced into Tic
lOokin'-g glass, AN | thought l never
saw myself look so well, for all
was forty-two years old. The sun
shOne powerful hot that day, bul
there was quite a brisk breeze a
stillln,' AM as we carried an umber-
ell we kept pretty comfortable.
"We hadn't gone fur when we
met 'Kek'l BartOn: he n0lled ennA-
m0rnin' TO us, but never looG BIS
eyes off from me. 'Ahn SAYS | Ia
myself, he noticed my new bunnir,
an | sOt M little strai.h .hGer.
Pretty soon We met Il man au' d wo-
man, strangers, au' they both look
ed at me tremendous sharp. Thinks
|, it's reely aSlOnishiIrshOw hand
some bunnit viii set Oft any body ,
i Wal, we mel lots 9 folks, first an
East, am they all stared at me. from
] the oldest am wisrSt down to thr
young ones maxim mud pies beside
the road.
"By the time we got to the vii
lage, | had come to the cOncinsion
that | was a pretty good lookin'
woman; aI' as that Uncle Hrin is,
that yon was a-readlh' about, says
begun to feel 'monSt'lous bi3gaty!
"As we drove up to the store, Mr..
Puffer, the head clerk, was a-stand-
in on the piazza; he come forrard
all smiIlin' an polite, but jest as /
stepped ont O the wagon he said
"'Why, Mis- Peabody ! where's
your bnnnit y l put mp my hand
kinder scairf, an' as true as | live
au' breathe | was as bare-hedded as
| be this minute. do believe You
could ha' knocked me over with a
feather, was that took dowu. But
Jonathan, he begun to laugh am
that brought me to my senses. |
spoke up real sharp: Shows bow
much yOn care about your wife,
says l, probably YOU haIn't looked |
at me since We left home. nobody |
knows where | lost it, had Il
suspicion, though. !. that it blew of !
about as sOOn as We started, iOr |
how all the folks had
stared at me, an knew now what
'rwas for. | was so mad to think
that had supposed they was adj
mirin' ut me that l wanted to |
scratch my own eyes out.
81 borrowed somethih' to wear
home, but you better believe
didn't have quite so good Il conceil
o myself Oh the way back as | did !
soIn' down.
"W6eu got into the house there
was my new bunnit safe an sound
on my bed. The children said Zekc
Barton brought it in about ten miu-
utes after We started lie found it
at the top o the hill jest below the
house.
"Wal, that night | went over to
the Levi fuckers IN Il hurry | told /
Matildy what bad happened, an /
made her send to that milliner wo-
man in BrattlebOrO, on git some
ribbon tor strings; she cut Oft a
scrap from the dangliiP end of Il
bow al sent for sample. Tell |
'em to be smart about il, MatildY,'
says |, for we're goiH' to start the
first 0i September, an il's now past /
the middle OF August
"The ribbon came 'maziu' quick,
so l had strings tony bamnii when
we starred 10 the Centennial II
KEEP Tue ,1astic on too, fOrI wanted !
to 6esure it didn't 90 tiyin' away |
agin.
'sWe had a grand time seem tine
sights, l tell ye, but never could |
understand where such a host O.
folks could ha' cOine from. | didn't
'spose there was so many in all the
world.
"Bat hain't got done telliu' ye I
about that buUnit. Ye see we was |
in Pheladelphy over Sunday, 50, of
course, we weut TO meetin'. Ididn't !
think the sermon We heard was a
mite betteI'n old PaisOn Hatcl's,
but the meetin' house was powerful
big aud grand ah' the organ. oh,
my it seemed like thunder, only IL |
played "A tune. jest ia front of us
was a fat woman au' a slim, fidgety 1
girl-her daughter, seemin'ly.
"They was dressed in silks am
satins, fne AS could be. Duriu' tue
prayer after tue 'rmOn put down
my head proper like, as | always
do; the fat woman did the same
but the girl, she sOt up straight an'
kep a.wiggliu' am a.twiStiu' till l
thought | should have 10 lift my I
bead up; but jest as l vas a-goin'
to she give AN extra jerk to her
shoulders, an of come my bunnit
right INTO her seat. You see that
very moruin' the 1asiic give an 1
took it off-'twas kinder bother
some, anyhow.
"Nal, made grab for the bun
nii, but jest that minit the minister
said 'Ameu,' an' an back come that
big, fat woman, kersmash, night
as'inst it, maxim il as 1at as pan
cake.
II never Can tell you how l felt
.sppmed as though every body WAS